Artificial Investigator | A Detective Game powered by ChatGPT

This project was inspired by a 2017 video from Game Maker's Toolkit, which highlighted the design issues in detective games. One of the core problems identified by Mark Brown was that players often rely on predefined dialogue options to find solutions, leading to a lack of true player agency and independent thinking.

In his words, "They (the player) are not coming up with their own thoughts so much as simply looking at the answer that sounds most sensible. Or in some cases, just guessing.”

This project aims to address this problem by utilizing OpenAI's conversational technology. It seeks to create a narrative structure that avoids giving players clues through dialogue prompts, promoting an open-ended approach where players must ask the relevant questions to uncover answers.

You can find out more about the project by visiting it's GitHub repo.